Andrea Barrett Quotes

When I'm sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and then follow its bibliography and notes to other, more specialized works and to the primary source material.

Andrea Barrett

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Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters.

Joan Greenwood

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It's difficult for me to imagine a circumstance in which you're disguising your origins in which someone doesn't get hurt.

Jess Row

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If I am looking to impress people, I'll be in a Rent the Runway dress and great accessories.

Jennifer Hyman

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In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.

Jeff Greenfield

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Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

John Ruskin

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Election security is national security, and we have to start acting like it.

Amy Klobuchar

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The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.

Amy Grant

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I write music as a staff writer for Universal Music Group, and I have since 2007. I've never talked about it publicly because I wanted to earn the right to be in the same room as the great writers I write with and not shoot my mouth off because I'm an actor. It's really important to me, and I really care about it.

Mary Steenburgen

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We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

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I try to picture my books being acted out.

Denise Fleming

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Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

Deepika Padukone

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I was very shy. It was kind of scary to meet new people.

Chloe Kim

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